The ocean might be deep and mysterious, but not all of its life is bathed in darkness. Close to 90% of marine ecosystems ...

The vast, sunlit waters of the ocean’s surface, known as the photic zone, nurture 90% of marine life. Sunlight and moonlight ...

For World Ocean's Day, we're taking a look at how human activity could be contributing to darker oceans, and what that may ...

Darkening oceans could cause massive problems for marine life, and over 21% of the ocean has grown darker in the last 20 ...

Over 20% of the global ocean has darkened in the past two decades, shrinking critical light zones that support marine life.

Scientists, who have spent more than a decade examining the impact of artificial light at night on the world's coasts and oceans, have shown that more than one-fifth of the global ocean -- an area ...

They discovered that 21% of the global ocean had seen a darkening effect over the last two decades – with researchers warning ...

Affected swaths of ocean are roughly the same size as Africa, China, Europe and North America’s land areas combined.

At night, like many other animals that live in the twilight zone, it migrates to more shallow waters in search of food. Each night it reaches the upper layer of the ocean, or sunlight zone where ...

A study conducted by researchers from the University of Plymouth and Plymouth Marine Laboratory, who have spent more than a ...

It occurs following changes in the optical properties of the ocean that reduce the depth of its photic zones, the surface layers of the ocean that receive sunlight and moonlight, where 90 percent ...